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Giant Hydrocarbon Lakes Found On Saturn Moon, Titan

"Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole ... very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes."

- NASA and JPL Cassini-Huygens Mission

Two radar images acquired by the Cassini spacecraft radar instrument in synthetic aperture mode on July 21, 2006, near the Titan moon's north pole. The next Titan Flyby will be at 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) on September 7, 2006. Radar images courtesy NASA and JPL.
Two radar images acquired by the Cassini spacecraft radar instrument in synthetic aperture mode on July 21, 2006, near the Titan moon's north pole. The next Titan Flyby will be at 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) on September 7, 2006. Radar images courtesy NASA and JPL.

July 25, 2006 Pasadena, California - NASA and JPL report: "The Cassini spacecraft, using its radar system, has discovered very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole.

 

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Noah’s Ark Atop Takht-e-Soleiman Peak in Iran?

The yellow arrow points to the Takht-e-Soleiman (Soleyman) massif which has 160 distinct peaks above 4,000 meters (above 13,000 feet) in the Elborz mountain range of northern Iran. The B.A.S.E. Noah's ark expedition trekked to a 15,000-foot peak there in July 2005 and June 2006 and found the unusual dark rock outcrop below.
The yellow arrow points to the Takht-e-Soleiman (Soleyman) massif which has 160 distinct peaks above 4,000 meters (above 13,000 feet) in the Elborz mountain range of northern Iran. The B.A.S.E. Noah's ark expedition trekked to a 15,000-foot peak there in July 2005 and June 2006 and found the unusual dark rock outcrop below.
Dark rock in upper right extends about 400 feet through to the other side of the Soleiman peak. Image © 2006 by B.A.S.E.
Dark rock in upper right extends about 400 feet through to the other side of the Soleiman peak. Image © 2006 by B.A.S.E.
The orchid-colored rectangle is the Takht-e-Soleiman (Soleyman) massif region of 160 peaks above 4,000 feet in northern Iran.
The orchid-colored rectangle is the Takht-e-Soleiman (Soleyman) massif region of 160 peaks above 4,000 feet in northern Iran.

July 7, 2006  Monument, Colorado -  Long before the time of Jesus Christ, the Bible says God was angry at sinful humanity and planned to flood the planet above all the mountain tops to get rid of everyone. But God took pity on a man named Noah and his family and decided to save them and many animals. The salvation, according to the Bible, was a boat made of “gopher wood.” As the flood waters receded, Noah’s ark came to rest on “Ararat mountains,” plural. In Jeremiah Chapter 51, verse 27, Ararat is called a kingdom that fights with Babylon – not a volcanic mountain in Turkey. In fact, Mt. Ararat, Turkey, was not given that name until around 1200 A.D. That means historically, there was an ancient Ararat kingdom with many mountains in what most likely would have been Mesopotamia, or today’s Iran and Iraq.

 

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“Extraterrestrial Life” in Kerala, India Red Rain?

South of Bombay, the state of Kerala, India, is in the southwestern tip of the country bordered on the west by the Arabian Sea. Its capital is Thiruvananthapuram.  Map © by mapsofindia.com.
South of Bombay, the state of Kerala, India, is in the southwestern tip of the country bordered on the west by the Arabian Sea. Its capital is Thiruvananthapuram.  Map © by mapsofindia.com.

June 15, 2006   Cardiff, Wales, U. K. -  There was a most provocative title in the April 4, 2006, journal Astrophysics and Space Science. It reads: “The Red Rain Phenomenon of Kerala and Its Possible Extraterrestrial Origin.”

Kerala is called "God's own country" and is situated on the Malabar Coast in southwestern India. Besides attracting tourists to its beautiful beaches and lush trees where exotic wildlife live, the land supports companies which grow tea, coffee, rubber, cashew, pepper, cardamom, vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon.

 

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Simple “Binocular” Telescope Finds Another Planet Beyond Solar System

Astronomers used this inexpensive telescope to find an extrasolar planet transiting the face of a Sun-like star 600 light-years from Earth. The telescope, which looks like a pair of binoculars, consists of two 200-millimeter telephoto camera lenses. The lenses are attached to electronic device s that measured slight dips in light output from the star, indicating that an object was crossing in front of it. The telescope is on the summit of the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii. Research team members are from the Space Telescope Science Institute; Rice University; Boston University; University of Hawaii; University of Illinois; University of Florida; Boston University; Racoon Run Observatory; Hereford Arizona Observatory; CBA Belgium Observatory.
Astronomers used this inexpensive telescope to find an extrasolar planet transiting the face of a Sun-like star 600 light-years from Earth. The telescope, which looks like a pair of binoculars, consists of two 200-millimeter telephoto camera lenses. The lenses are attached to electronic device s that measured slight dips in light output from the star, indicating that an object was crossing in front of it. The telescope is on the summit of the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii. Research team members are from the Space Telescope Science Institute; Rice University; Boston University; University of Hawaii; University of Illinois; University of Florida; Boston University; Racoon Run Observatory; Hereford Arizona Observatory; CBA Belgium Observatory.

May 19, 2006  Baltimore, Maryland  -  The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore reports an equipment and money breakthrough in the search for planets orbiting suns beyond our solar system. An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, using simple off-the-shelf equipment have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star similar to our sun 600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Corona Borealis.

 

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Mt. Merapi Volcano In Ring of Fire

An "imminent" eruption, say authorities, has provoked a call for
more than 20,000 people to evacuate their homes on Saturday, May 13, 2006.

- 1994 Eruption killed about 70 people.

- 1930 eruption killed 1,370.

Mt. Merapi volcano near heavily populated Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on May 13, 2006. Rising 9,700 feet (2,900 meters), Merapi has been steadily active for more than a decade. Image © 2006 by AP.
Mt. Merapi volcano near heavily populated Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on May 13, 2006. Rising 9,700 feet (2,900 meters), Merapi has been steadily active for more than a decade. Image © 2006 by AP.

May 13, 2006  Yogyakarta, Indonesia -  The Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program wrote about Mt. Merapi in 2000:

 

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Saturn’s Titan Moon Has Puzzling Dunes

Cassini's radar images show dunes that "are 330 feet high (100 meters) and run parallel to each other for hundreds of miles at Titan's equator."

- Ralph Lorenz, Ph.D., Univ. of Arizona

May 5, 2006   Tucson, Arizona- The University of Arizona (UA) reports that it was only two years ago that planetary scientists thought the "dark equatorial regions of Titan might be liquid oceans." But now new radar evidence shows the "dark seas" are actually sand dunes very similar to those in the Namibian Desert in Africa (shown below). Cassini's radar images show dunes that "are 330 feet high (100 meters) and run parallel to each other for hundreds of miles at Titan's equator." It's theorized that the dunes are sand trapped in liquid ethane.

 

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Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion  

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April 28, 2006   Harvest, Alabama - Ten years ago in 1996, I was investigating strange metal of alternating layers of bismuth and a magnesium/zinc alloy allegedly taken in 1947 from the bottom of a “wedge-shaped extraterrestrial vehicle.” Several pieces of the layered metal had been shipped to Art Bell, then radio host of Dreamland and Coast to Coast AM for which I was reporting. To this day, that layered metal is a mystery and so far has never been duplicated.

 

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Cassiopeia A Is Not Dying Peacefully. Is It A Magnetar?

"Spitzer (infrared telescope) came along and showed us this exploded star,  one of the most intensively studied objects in the sky, is still undergoing death throes before heading to its final grave."

- Oliver Krause, Ph.D., University of Arizona

April 22, 2006   Pasadena, California -  The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena reported this week that NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has made accidental and surprising infrared images of light echoes from a star that was supposed to have died 325 years ago in a supernova explosion. But the new infrared information indicates Cassiopeia has released "at least one burst of energy as recently as fifty years ago" from its cosmic grave 11,000 light-years from Earth.

 

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Hot Venus Now Studied by ESA’s Venus Express

The CO2 and sulfuric acid atmosphere of Venus is 90 times denser at the surface than Earth's and that greenhouse gas blanket retains almost all of the heat Venus receives from the sun, making the planet's surface temperature 480 ° C (896 °F). Image by ESA.
The CO2 and sulfuric acid atmosphere of Venus is 90 times denser at the surface than Earth's and that greenhouse gas blanket retains almost all of the heat Venus receives from the sun, making the planet's surface temperature 480 ° C (896 °F). Image by ESA.
Artist's illustration of Venus Express firing its rocket engine to slow down into orbit around the hot planet on April 11, 2006. Image by ESA.
Artist's illustration of Venus Express firing its rocket engine to slow down into orbit around the hot planet on April 11, 2006. Image by ESA.

April 11, 2006  Darmstadt, Germany  -  The European Space Agency (ESA) reported this morning that "at the end of a 153-day and 400-million km cruise into the inner Solar System beginning with its launch on 9 November 2005, ESA’s Venus Express space probe fired its main engine at 09:17 CEST for a 50-minute burn, which brought it into orbit around Venus. With this firing, the probe reduced its relative velocity toward the planet from 29,000 to about 25,000 km/h and was captured by its gravity field. This orbit insertion maneuver was a complete success.

 

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One Way H5N1 Bird Flu Could Adapt to Humans

"It’s still unknown what the H5N1 virus could or will do, but we suggest the HA receptor switch is a possible route that the H5N1 virus could get a foothold in the human population."

  - Ian Wilson, Molecular Biologist, Scripps Research Institute

Left: Highly pathogenic A/chicken/HK/YU562/01 (H5N1). Right: Moderately pathogenic A/goose/HK/437-10/99 (H5N1). Source: Journal of Virology.
Left: Highly pathogenic A/chicken/HK/YU562/01 (H5N1). Right: Moderately pathogenic A/goose/HK/437-10/99 (H5N1). Source: Journal of Virology.

March 21, 2006  Lajolla, California -  The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) in Geneva, Switzerland, is concerned that with each new case of bird flu in humans, the possibility that the virus could mutate into a form transmissible from human-to-human increases. Once that happens, it's a worldwide influenza pandemic. It happened in 1918 and that pandemic killed fifty to one hundred million people around our planet, depending on various sources. Modern research on skeletons of some of those victims has revealed that the binding sites of the 1918 influenza virus had similar characteristics to those in the new lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu. It's also educated medical opinion that the 1918 pandemic flu strain first originated in birds and mutated inside human hosts to move person-to-person.

 

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